kco's midgame post #2

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kco

Here is a game between me and thebloks in which I lost recently. Here the opening, is there anywhere I could improved ?












 
I will show the rest of the game soon....

kco

Are you guys saying there no problem in the opening so far ?

kco

 Here is the continuous of the game, can you find the mistake where I went wrong  in this middlegame

TheHappyFatVegan

opening looked really goood there KC but at move 8 when you had him push that horse back home you should have had him....I mean you should have developed a bishop instead of the pawn push.

The game was definitely leaning your way though, I also would not have done a pawn push on move 13....did you do that to prevent him from advancing his pawn any further? I think better piece developement would have been better.

maybe scoot your horse around some...like a4  maybe then look at ways to develop your bishops better.

I'll look at the second half later but thats my quick take on the first part

kco

hey wjones4, what wrong with having a c-pawn supporting the d-pawn ? (1st diag. 9th move) yes is goes make sense to develope a piece like 9.Bc4 instead.
 yeah on move 13.f4 is to stop the advance of the f-pawn

TheHappyFatVegan

nothing really wrong with that but I think bringing out some more power at that point would have been a little better. the d pawn was supported temporarily by your queen so for him to go after it he would need to set up at least two pieces already by then you could have pushed the c pawn....but like I said there is nothing really wrong with that move....your opening was pretty solid

kco

Thank you, for your comment wjones4.

dutchkiwi

In the second diagram, your move 10 should have been BxN instead of RxB.

kco

how you manage to see that dutchkiwi ?! and you are right, also thebloks point it out to me about this move. Why couldn't I see this ?

dutchkiwi

Also in the second diagram, move 8 cxb5 with the ensuing swap off gains you an extra pawn.  e.g.  8.cxb5, axb5  9.Nxb5, QxQ  10.RxQ, Nxd5  11.Bc4, Be6 (must do to save the N)  12.BxN, BxB  13. Nxd6 and you have gained a pawn, plus have two pawns Queen side that can advance unblocked.